Senate roll call 23 · 37th Congress · Mar 23, 1861
To postpone consideration of the resolution relating to the election of the officers of the Senate, until the second monday of december next.
On Mar 23, 1861, the Senate voted 13–24. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–24, Democrats 13–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 37th Congress (1861–1862), Abraham Lincoln was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 13
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 36
- Date
- Mar 23, 1861
By party
- Democrats13 yes · 0 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 24 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- Charles Burton Mitchel D-AR
- Milton Slocum Latham D-CA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas D-IL
- Jesse David Bright D-IN
- John Cabell Breckinridge D-KY
- Lazarus Whitehead Powell D-KY
- Henry Mower Rice D-MN
- Thomas Lanier Clingman D-NC
- John Renshaw Thomson D-NJ
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson D-TN
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- James Dixon R-CT
- Lafayette Sabine Foster R-CT
- James Wilson Grimes R-IA
- Lyman Trumbull R-IL
- Henry Smith Lane R-IN
- Henry Wilson R-MA
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Kinsley Scott Bingham R-MI
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Daniel Clark R-NH
- John Parker Hale R-NH
- John Conover Ten Eyck R-NJ
- Ira Harris R-NY
- Benjamin Franklin Wade R-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Edward Dickinson Baker R-OR
- David Wilmot R-PA
- Edgar Cowan R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- James Fowler Simmons R-RI
- Jacob Collamer R-VT
- Solomon Foot R-VT
- James Rood Doolittle R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- William King Sebastian D-AR
- James Alexander Mcdougall D-CA
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. D-DE
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. D-DE
- James Harlan R-IA
- Orville Hickman Browning R-IL
- William Alexander Richardson D-IL
- David Turpie D-IN
- Joseph Albert Wright O-IN
- James Henry Lane R-KS
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy R-KS
- Garrett Davis O-KY
- Charles Sumner R-MA
- Anthony Kennedy O-MD
- James Alfred Pearce D-MD
- Thomas Holliday Hicks O-MD
- William Pitt Fessenden R-ME
- Jacob Merritt Howard R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- John Brooks Henderson O-MO
- Robert Wilson O-MO
- Trusten Polk D-MO
- Waldo Porter Johnson D-MO
- Thomas Bragg D-NC
- James Walter Wall D-NJ
- Richard Stockton Field R-NJ
- Preston King R-NY
- Salmon Portland Chase R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Harding D-OR
- Benjamin Stark D-OR
- Samuel Greene Arnold R-RI
- John Hemphill D-TX
- James Murray Mason D-VA
- John Snyder Carlile O-VA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA
- Waitman Thomas Willey O-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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